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Lots of folks in the west have access to Horticultural Pumice which can frequently purchased quite inexpensively in bulk (truck load from the "mining" company or bag or barrel load from nursery suppliers). Boon uses a lot of "Hyuga", pumice from Japan. No bulk here and fairly expensive, but it is "brownish" and not the stark white of some of the mined products in North America. If you can't find HP nor want to pay for Hyuga, you can use expanded shale as a substitute in you mix- some expanded shale products include- Haydite, lite-weight, expanded aggregae, etc.

Boon, Great job!! I received your DVD's two weeks ago and have watched them several times each. I just seem to pick up more info each time. Can't wait for the next installment. Would you please also consider making one to cover other pines, say Mugo, Scotts, Austrian? And maybe white pines too? Looks like you might have a market...anybody else interested? Thanks, Don.

Anyone or Boon know about what size pumice particles are used in the repottin video? I ask because I got 5 40# bags of Dry Stall(pumice) and would like to know. So far it seems the majority of the particles are 3-4mm in size with the next abundance bein in the 2-3mm range and the least bein 5-10mm in size. The largest size used for drainage layer? Thanks Steven

You should be able to use all of those sizes...use the larger for your drainage and just discard the very biggest pieces. That all sounds about right.